Most islands have a hot and humid climate, and the rainfall exceeds 2 meters per year(equivalent to Brazilian rainforest). Islands in Oceania also experience strong wind from the east.
Answer:
molasses act
Explanation:
a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.
Ferdinand Marcos was the President of the Philippines from 1917-1989 and was widely known as a dictator who practiced corruption,extravagance and brutality.
Corazon Aquino was part of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines which toppled the authoritarian government of Ferdinand Marcos and she is known as the woman behind the democracy restoration in the country.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese opposition politician and is the chairperson of the National League for Democracy, but was put under house arrest for fifteen years, because the government did not want to hear her opposing political stance to their unfair regime.
Sukarno was the first President of Indonesia and led it to it's independence movement from the Netherlands.
Suharto was the second President of Indonesia and is known for being able to stabilize a sprawling country and improving the health, education and living standards.
Matilde Hidalgo was the first woman to vote in all of Latin America.
Matilde Hidalgo de Prócel was a doctor, poet and activist from Ecuador. She was the first woman to exercise the vote in Ecuador, as well as the first to obtain a doctorate in medicine.
During the presidency of José Luis Tamayo, Matilde announced that she would vote in the following presidential elections. She approached to register in the electoral registries of the Machala canton, to participate in the next elections of senators and deputies, but she was prevented from saying that she was a woman. At her insistence, they registered her, but the parliament and the Council of State were consulted and, in its session on June 9, 1924, it unanimously resolved that "Ecuadorian women had the right to choose and be chosen. ''
In 1924, she was able to vote in Loja, turning Ecuador into the first country in the continent that won the female vote.
Dry farming occurs is areas where there is little rainfall. Mesopotamians depended on the annual flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This is similar to the Egyptians depending on the Nile to flood. The annual flooding was more predictable than expecting rainfall. The problem with this style of farming is that rivers move and dry up. Should a great drought occur then even the flooding won't be enough to keep crops growing.
